经济增长与居民健康的理论综述与分析

Theoretical Review and Analysis of Economic Growth and Residents�� Health

经济增长是人民健康水平提高的重要基础, 人民健康水平的提高是社会经济增长的前提条件, 两者相互联系, 互相影响。本文在文献梳理的基础上, 分析了经济增长和居民健康之间互相影响的机制。研究表明: 经济增长与居民健康之间的关系根据指标选取、研究区域以及研究群体特征的不同而呈现出不同的结果。对于经济发展水平低的地区或国家而言, 经济增长会对居民健康起到积极的正向影响, 但存在边际递减效应, 而对于经济发展水平高的地区或发展中国家而言, 经济增长给居民健康带来了消极的负面影响。经济增长与居民健康之间存在多种作用机制, 健康通过预期寿命, 死亡率和生产力等途径对社会经济产生影响; 经济的发展也通过失业率、卫生投入、环境污染和营养摄入等方面作用于居民健康。在社会发展过程中会衍生出各种经济和健康相关的问题, 包括人口老龄化、养老负担加剧、工业污染和慢性病等问题, 会对经济和健康之间的作用关系产生影响。

Economic growth is an important foundation for the improvement of people's health, and the improvement of people's health is a prerequisite for social and economic growth, which are interconnected and influence each other. This paper analyzes the mechanism of mutual influence between economic growth and people's health on the basis of literature combing. The study shows that the relationship between residents’s health and economic growth presents different results depending on the selection of indicators, the study area and the characteristics of the study group. For regions or countries with a low level of economic development, economic growth has a positive effect on residents'health, but there is a marginal diminishing effect, while for regions or developing countries with a high level of economic development, economic growth has a negative effect on residents'health. There are multiple mechanisms of interaction between residents' health and economic growth. Health affects socio-economics through life expectancy, mortality rate and productivity; economic development also affects residents' health through unemployment rate, health inputs, environmental pollution and nutritional intake. A variety of economic and health-related issues are derived from the process of social development, including population aging, increasing pension burdens, industrial pollution and chronic diseases, which have an impact on the relationship between the economy and health.